Looking at how the set is slowly cominf together, I'm thinking that these should be like the snow lands and be - Elemental supertype - Basic Land - Type (So this would be a Void - Basic Land - Swamp) which will make it much easier to build elemental themed decks. If I went down this path I would need to rework the rules of the set so this only produced but that any mana produced from an elemental land is mana of that elemental type (again bringing it in line with Snow Mana) then I could have elemental activation costs.
That sounds like a very sensible approach. You could template it just like the symbol from snow card:
> ({Void} can be paid with one mana from a Void permanent.)
By the way, do you have little icons you want to use in place of the {Void}, {Fire} etc text strings? I've got an imminent Multiverse feature on its way that'll let you define symbols like that in the cardset configuration, and then have them converted to the same image anywhere you mention it on a card, comment or details page in that cardset.
Actually I do have as basic little 'elemental mana symbol that I came up with. I originally played around with having one for each element type but decided to just go with a unified one like the snow mana symbol and have the type of elemental mana /required generated be determined by the elemental supertype.
This may be a bit complicated however and maybe I do need a different symbol for each element to avoid confusion.
OR, I could take a leaf out of Phyrexian Mana's book and just have the one symbol but have it colour coded.
Air could be a light blue, Fire Orange, Earth Brown, Water Aqua and Void Purple - heh 5 new 'colours of magic' coming your way soon (or not)
OK I have completed my Overhaul of these lands. They now work much like the Snow Covered Lands from Ice Age Block/Coldsnap in that any mana produced can be used as regular mana or as elemental mana of the appropriate type.
Thus this could produce or {Void} mana.
People may be a bit confused at first once all 20 Elemental basic Lands are up as each lot of 4 cards of a landtype will not necessarily have the same Elemental type - as cards in the set are given (or not) an elemental type based on their function/flavour rather than colour. This way the elements can have what fits them thematically (Fire in Fire whereas Lightning is in Air [and a White Lightning Bolt would seriously mess with people's heads]).
From playtesting this has proven the easiest way to go as it has the shortest learning curve of the versions I've tested.
Looking at how the set is slowly cominf together, I'm thinking that these should be like the snow lands and be - Elemental supertype - Basic Land - Type (So this would be a Void - Basic Land - Swamp) which will make it much easier to build elemental themed decks. If I went down this path I would need to rework the rules of the set so this only produced
but that any mana produced from an elemental land is mana of that elemental type (again bringing it in line with Snow Mana) then I could have elemental activation costs.
That sounds like a very sensible approach. You could template it just like the
symbol from snow card:
> ({Void} can be paid with one mana from a Void permanent.)
By the way, do you have little icons you want to use in place of the {Void}, {Fire} etc text strings? I've got an imminent Multiverse feature on its way that'll let you define symbols like that in the cardset configuration, and then have them converted to the same image anywhere you mention it on a card, comment or details page in that cardset.
Actually I do have as basic little 'elemental mana symbol that I came up with. I originally played around with having one for each element type but decided to just go with a unified one like the snow mana symbol
and have the type of elemental mana /required generated be determined by the elemental supertype.
This may be a bit complicated however and maybe I do need a different symbol for each element to avoid confusion.
OR, I could take a leaf out of Phyrexian Mana's book and just have the one symbol but have it colour coded. Air could be a light blue, Fire Orange, Earth Brown, Water Aqua and Void Purple - heh 5 new 'colours of magic' coming your way soon (or not)
Change in name & functionality
OK I have completed my Overhaul of these lands. They now work much like the Snow Covered Lands from Ice Age Block/Coldsnap in that any mana produced can be used as regular mana or as elemental mana of the appropriate type. Thus this could produce
or {Void} mana.
People may be a bit confused at first once all 20 Elemental basic Lands are up as each lot of 4 cards of a landtype will not necessarily have the same Elemental type - as cards in the set are given (or not) an elemental type based on their function/flavour rather than colour. This way the elements can have what fits them thematically (Fire in Fire whereas Lightning is in Air [and a White Lightning Bolt would seriously mess with people's heads]).
From playtesting this has proven the easiest way to go as it has the shortest learning curve of the versions I've tested.